In hard secular times we imagine that the people of God will nobly knuckle down and stand firm in the face of the Sexular Culture, the post-Christian social experiments that continue to defy physio-logic, and progressive officialdom’s push to purge the public square of any Christian voice that does not play the “renaming” game. In […]
I don’t ever see it going back to what it was like before. Before you came into our lives. You’ve got to hand it to Netflix. Putting on Marie Kondo’s Tidying Up straight after Christmas and the New Year was a masterstroke in scheduling. By now, in a frenzy of new year’s resolve and […]
Jared C Wilson gets five out of five stars for his review of the state of Christian movies: Why Christian Movies Are So Terrible. He nails it, especially the first point, that Christian movies are made, not by artists, but by propagandists. Wilson states: Christian movies are more akin to propaganda than art, because they […]
Contemporary is out. Liturgy is the new black. A recent article in The Times confirms what I’ve been hearing anecdotally, and been witnessing among our own congregation: many Millennials returning to church are often not headed towards the large pentecostal churches, or the “pentecostal-lite”, or even the “evangelical-lite”, but towards liturgy. Now the article above is […]
What would you do with up to three months off work? Does that sound like a dream? Well, I have almost three months off, combining annual leave, some long service leave, and a slow taper back into two roles in March. And it sounds like a dream. Sounds like it. I just don’t want it […]
It would seem that the only relationship that isn’t respected by those rolling out the Trojan horse program Respectful Relationships into our schools, is the relationship between parents and their own children. Once Christmas ends, the first billboards from Officeworks are up, reminding parents that it’s back to school in only four weeks time! Four […]
Two world’s ran into each other on New Year’s Day near where I live. It was a hot morning down at the river where I was heading to do the New Year’s Day 5km Woodbridge parkrun event. There were about 160 other people milling around warming up. I’d gotten up early, for a warm up […]
Tomorrow, the second last day of the year, and the last Sunday, eight of the young people in our church will be baptised. Eight young people ranging in age from six through to 23 will be plunged into a better story; the story of God’s work in the world. Eight young people will gather around […]
But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. (Jesus in Matthew 12) Well it’s finally been admitted. Billionaire tech inventor Elon Musk, has come out and said that whatever you say about someone on Twitter doesn’t count cos you said […]
There’s every chance that 2019 might just be a great year for evangelism in Australia. Every chance a wave is coming in. Every chance indeed. There are some telling signs. I was listening last week to the always excellent This Cultural Moment podcast, and Mark Sayers was observing that while it seems that the tide has […]
